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  <div class="section" id="module-shutil">
<span id="shutil-high-level-file-operations"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-shutil" title="shutil: High-level file operations, including copying."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil</span></code></a> — High-level file operations<a class="headerlink" href="#module-shutil" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.8/Lib/shutil.py">Lib/shutil.py</a></p>
<hr class="docutils" id="index-0" />
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-shutil" title="shutil: High-level file operations, including copying."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil</span></code></a> module offers a number of high-level operations on files and
collections of files.  In particular, functions are provided  which support file
copying and removal. For operations on individual files, see also the
<a class="reference internal" href="os.html#module-os" title="os: Miscellaneous operating system interfaces."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os</span></code></a> module.</p>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p>Even the higher-level file copying functions (<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy" title="shutil.copy"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copy()</span></code></a>,
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copy2()</span></code></a>) cannot copy all file metadata.</p>
<p>On POSIX platforms, this means that file owner and group are lost as well
as ACLs.  On Mac OS, the resource fork and other metadata are not used.
This means that resources will be lost and file type and creator codes will
not be correct. On Windows, file owners, ACLs and alternate data streams
are not copied.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="directory-and-files-operations">
<span id="file-operations"></span><h2>Directory and files operations<a class="headerlink" href="#directory-and-files-operations" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.copyfileobj">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">copyfileobj</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">fsrc</em>, <em class="sig-param">fdst</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">length</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.copyfileobj" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Copy the contents of the file-like object <em>fsrc</em> to the file-like object <em>fdst</em>.
The integer <em>length</em>, if given, is the buffer size. In particular, a negative
<em>length</em> value means to copy the data without looping over the source data in
chunks; by default the data is read in chunks to avoid uncontrolled memory
consumption. Note that if the current file position of the <em>fsrc</em> object is not
0, only the contents from the current file position to the end of the file will
be copied.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.copyfile">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">copyfile</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">src</em>, <em class="sig-param">dst</em>, <em class="sig-param">*</em>, <em class="sig-param">follow_symlinks=True</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.copyfile" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Copy the contents (no metadata) of the file named <em>src</em> to a file named
<em>dst</em> and return <em>dst</em> in the most efficient way possible.
<em>src</em> and <em>dst</em> are path-like objects or path names given as strings.</p>
<p><em>dst</em> must be the complete target file name; look at <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy" title="shutil.copy"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy()</span></code></a>
for a copy that accepts a target directory path.  If <em>src</em> and <em>dst</em>
specify the same file, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.SameFileError" title="shutil.SameFileError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SameFileError</span></code></a> is raised.</p>
<p>The destination location must be writable; otherwise, an <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a>
exception will be raised. If <em>dst</em> already exists, it will be replaced.
Special files such as character or block devices and pipes cannot be
copied with this function.</p>
<p>If <em>follow_symlinks</em> is false and <em>src</em> is a symbolic link,
a new symbolic link will be created instead of copying the
file <em>src</em> points to.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copyfile</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">src</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span><a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#IOError" title="IOError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">IOError</span></code></a> used to be raised instead of <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a>.
Added <em>follow_symlinks</em> argument.
Now returns <em>dst</em>.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.4: </span>Raise <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.SameFileError" title="shutil.SameFileError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SameFileError</span></code></a> instead of <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.Error" title="shutil.Error"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Error</span></code></a>.  Since the former is
a subclass of the latter, this change is backward compatible.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>Platform-specific fast-copy syscalls may be used internally in order to
copy the file more efficiently. See
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil-platform-dependent-efficient-copy-operations"><span class="std std-ref">Platform-dependent efficient copy operations</span></a> section.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="exception">
<dt id="shutil.SameFileError">
<em class="property">exception </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">SameFileError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.SameFileError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This exception is raised if source and destination in <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copyfile" title="shutil.copyfile"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copyfile()</span></code></a>
are the same file.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.4.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.copymode">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">copymode</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">src</em>, <em class="sig-param">dst</em>, <em class="sig-param">*</em>, <em class="sig-param">follow_symlinks=True</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.copymode" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Copy the permission bits from <em>src</em> to <em>dst</em>.  The file contents, owner, and
group are unaffected.  <em>src</em> and <em>dst</em> are path-like objects or path names
given as strings.
If <em>follow_symlinks</em> is false, and both <em>src</em> and <em>dst</em> are symbolic links,
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copymode" title="shutil.copymode"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copymode()</span></code></a> will attempt to modify the mode of <em>dst</em> itself (rather
than the file it points to).  This functionality is not available on every
platform; please see <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a> for more information.  If
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copymode" title="shutil.copymode"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copymode()</span></code></a> cannot modify symbolic links on the local platform, and it
is asked to do so, it will do nothing and return.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copymode</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">src</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Added <em>follow_symlinks</em> argument.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.copystat">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">copystat</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">src</em>, <em class="sig-param">dst</em>, <em class="sig-param">*</em>, <em class="sig-param">follow_symlinks=True</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.copystat" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Copy the permission bits, last access time, last modification time, and
flags from <em>src</em> to <em>dst</em>.  On Linux, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a> also copies the
“extended attributes” where possible.  The file contents, owner, and
group are unaffected.  <em>src</em> and <em>dst</em> are path-like objects or path
names given as strings.</p>
<p>If <em>follow_symlinks</em> is false, and <em>src</em> and <em>dst</em> both
refer to symbolic links, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a> will operate on
the symbolic links themselves rather than the files the
symbolic links refer to—reading the information from the
<em>src</em> symbolic link, and writing the information to the
<em>dst</em> symbolic link.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Not all platforms provide the ability to examine and
modify symbolic links.  Python itself can tell you what
functionality is locally available.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>If <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.chmod</span> <span class="pre">in</span> <span class="pre">os.supports_follow_symlinks</span></code> is
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a> can modify the permission
bits of a symbolic link.</p></li>
<li><p>If <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.utime</span> <span class="pre">in</span> <span class="pre">os.supports_follow_symlinks</span></code> is
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a> can modify the last access
and modification times of a symbolic link.</p></li>
<li><p>If <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.chflags</span> <span class="pre">in</span> <span class="pre">os.supports_follow_symlinks</span></code> is
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a> can modify the flags of
a symbolic link.  (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.chflags</span></code> is not available on
all platforms.)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>On platforms where some or all of this functionality
is unavailable, when asked to modify a symbolic link,
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a> will copy everything it can.
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a> never returns failure.</p>
<p>Please see <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.supports_follow_symlinks" title="os.supports_follow_symlinks"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.supports_follow_symlinks</span></code></a>
for more information.</p>
</div>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copystat</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">src</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Added <em>follow_symlinks</em> argument and support for Linux extended attributes.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.copy">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">copy</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">src</em>, <em class="sig-param">dst</em>, <em class="sig-param">*</em>, <em class="sig-param">follow_symlinks=True</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.copy" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Copies the file <em>src</em> to the file or directory <em>dst</em>.  <em>src</em> and <em>dst</em>
should be <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-path-like-object"><span class="xref std std-term">path-like objects</span></a> or strings.  If
<em>dst</em> specifies a directory, the file will be copied into <em>dst</em> using the
base filename from <em>src</em>.  Returns the path to the newly created file.</p>
<p>If <em>follow_symlinks</em> is false, and <em>src</em> is a symbolic link,
<em>dst</em> will be created as a symbolic link.  If <em>follow_symlinks</em>
is true and <em>src</em> is a symbolic link, <em>dst</em> will be a copy of
the file <em>src</em> refers to.</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy" title="shutil.copy"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy()</span></code></a> copies the file data and the file’s permission
mode (see <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.chmod" title="os.chmod"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.chmod()</span></code></a>).  Other metadata, like the
file’s creation and modification times, is not preserved.
To preserve all file metadata from the original, use
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy2()</span></code></a> instead.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copyfile</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">src</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code>.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copymode</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">src</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Added <em>follow_symlinks</em> argument.
Now returns path to the newly created file.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>Platform-specific fast-copy syscalls may be used internally in order to
copy the file more efficiently. See
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil-platform-dependent-efficient-copy-operations"><span class="std std-ref">Platform-dependent efficient copy operations</span></a> section.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.copy2">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">copy2</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">src</em>, <em class="sig-param">dst</em>, <em class="sig-param">*</em>, <em class="sig-param">follow_symlinks=True</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.copy2" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Identical to <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy" title="shutil.copy"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy()</span></code></a> except that <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy2()</span></code></a>
also attempts to preserve file metadata.</p>
<p>When <em>follow_symlinks</em> is false, and <em>src</em> is a symbolic
link, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy2()</span></code></a> attempts to copy all metadata from the
<em>src</em> symbolic link to the newly-created <em>dst</em> symbolic link.
However, this functionality is not available on all platforms.
On platforms where some or all of this functionality is
unavailable, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy2()</span></code></a> will preserve all the metadata
it can; <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy2()</span></code></a> never raises an exception because it
cannot preserve file metadata.</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy2()</span></code></a> uses <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a> to copy the file metadata.
Please see <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a> for more information
about platform support for modifying symbolic link metadata.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copyfile</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">src</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code>.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copystat</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">src</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Added <em>follow_symlinks</em> argument, try to copy extended
file system attributes too (currently Linux only).
Now returns path to the newly created file.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>Platform-specific fast-copy syscalls may be used internally in order to
copy the file more efficiently. See
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil-platform-dependent-efficient-copy-operations"><span class="std std-ref">Platform-dependent efficient copy operations</span></a> section.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.ignore_patterns">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">ignore_patterns</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">*patterns</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.ignore_patterns" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This factory function creates a function that can be used as a callable for
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copytree" title="shutil.copytree"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copytree()</span></code></a>’s <em>ignore</em> argument, ignoring files and directories that
match one of the glob-style <em>patterns</em> provided.  See the example below.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.copytree">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">copytree</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">src</em>, <em class="sig-param">dst</em>, <em class="sig-param">symlinks=False</em>, <em class="sig-param">ignore=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">copy_function=copy2</em>, <em class="sig-param">ignore_dangling_symlinks=False</em>, <em class="sig-param">dirs_exist_ok=False</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.copytree" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Recursively copy an entire directory tree rooted at <em>src</em> to a directory
named <em>dst</em> and return the destination directory. <em>dirs_exist_ok</em> dictates
whether to raise an exception in case <em>dst</em> or any missing parent directory
already exists.</p>
<p>Permissions and times of directories are copied with <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copystat" title="shutil.copystat"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copystat()</span></code></a>,
individual files are copied using <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy2()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>If <em>symlinks</em> is true, symbolic links in the source tree are represented as
symbolic links in the new tree and the metadata of the original links will
be copied as far as the platform allows; if false or omitted, the contents
and metadata of the linked files are copied to the new tree.</p>
<p>When <em>symlinks</em> is false, if the file pointed by the symlink doesn’t
exist, an exception will be added in the list of errors raised in
an <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.Error" title="shutil.Error"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Error</span></code></a> exception at the end of the copy process.
You can set the optional <em>ignore_dangling_symlinks</em> flag to true if you
want to silence this exception. Notice that this option has no effect
on platforms that don’t support <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.symlink" title="os.symlink"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.symlink()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>If <em>ignore</em> is given, it must be a callable that will receive as its
arguments the directory being visited by <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copytree" title="shutil.copytree"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copytree()</span></code></a>, and a list of its
contents, as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.listdir" title="os.listdir"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.listdir()</span></code></a>.  Since <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copytree" title="shutil.copytree"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copytree()</span></code></a> is
called recursively, the <em>ignore</em> callable will be called once for each
directory that is copied.  The callable must return a sequence of directory
and file names relative to the current directory (i.e. a subset of the items
in its second argument); these names will then be ignored in the copy
process.  <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.ignore_patterns" title="shutil.ignore_patterns"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ignore_patterns()</span></code></a> can be used to create such a callable that
ignores names based on glob-style patterns.</p>
<p>If exception(s) occur, an <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.Error" title="shutil.Error"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Error</span></code></a> is raised with a list of reasons.</p>
<p>If <em>copy_function</em> is given, it must be a callable that will be used to copy
each file. It will be called with the source path and the destination path
as arguments. By default, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy2()</span></code></a> is used, but any function
that supports the same signature (like <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy" title="shutil.copy"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy()</span></code></a>) can be used.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copytree</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">src</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Copy metadata when <em>symlinks</em> is false.
Now returns <em>dst</em>.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>Added the <em>copy_function</em> argument to be able to provide a custom copy
function.
Added the <em>ignore_dangling_symlinks</em> argument to silent dangling symlinks
errors when <em>symlinks</em> is false.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>Platform-specific fast-copy syscalls may be used internally in order to
copy the file more efficiently. See
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil-platform-dependent-efficient-copy-operations"><span class="std std-ref">Platform-dependent efficient copy operations</span></a> section.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.8: </span>The <em>dirs_exist_ok</em> parameter.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.rmtree">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">rmtree</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">path</em>, <em class="sig-param">ignore_errors=False</em>, <em class="sig-param">onerror=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.rmtree" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p id="index-1">Delete an entire directory tree; <em>path</em> must point to a directory (but not a
symbolic link to a directory).  If <em>ignore_errors</em> is true, errors resulting
from failed removals will be ignored; if false or omitted, such errors are
handled by calling a handler specified by <em>onerror</em> or, if that is omitted,
they raise an exception.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>On platforms that support the necessary fd-based functions a symlink
attack resistant version of <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.rmtree" title="shutil.rmtree"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rmtree()</span></code></a> is used by default.  On other
platforms, the <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.rmtree" title="shutil.rmtree"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rmtree()</span></code></a> implementation is susceptible to a symlink
attack: given proper timing and circumstances, attackers can manipulate
symlinks on the filesystem to delete files they wouldn’t be able to access
otherwise.  Applications can use the <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.rmtree.avoids_symlink_attacks" title="shutil.rmtree.avoids_symlink_attacks"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rmtree.avoids_symlink_attacks</span></code></a>
function attribute to determine which case applies.</p>
</div>
<p>If <em>onerror</em> is provided, it must be a callable that accepts three
parameters: <em>function</em>, <em>path</em>, and <em>excinfo</em>.</p>
<p>The first parameter, <em>function</em>, is the function which raised the exception;
it depends on the platform and implementation.  The second parameter,
<em>path</em>, will be the path name passed to <em>function</em>.  The third parameter,
<em>excinfo</em>, will be the exception information returned by
<a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#sys.exc_info" title="sys.exc_info"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.exc_info()</span></code></a>.  Exceptions raised by <em>onerror</em> will not be caught.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.rmtree</span></code> with argument <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">path</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Added a symlink attack resistant version that is used automatically
if platform supports fd-based functions.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>On Windows, will no longer delete the contents of a directory junction
before removing the junction.</p>
</div>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="shutil.rmtree.avoids_symlink_attacks">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">rmtree.</code><code class="sig-name descname">avoids_symlink_attacks</code><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.rmtree.avoids_symlink_attacks" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Indicates whether the current platform and implementation provides a
symlink attack resistant version of <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.rmtree" title="shutil.rmtree"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rmtree()</span></code></a>.  Currently this is
only true for platforms supporting fd-based directory access functions.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.3.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.move">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">move</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">src</em>, <em class="sig-param">dst</em>, <em class="sig-param">copy_function=copy2</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.move" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Recursively move a file or directory (<em>src</em>) to another location (<em>dst</em>)
and return the destination.</p>
<p>If the destination is an existing directory, then <em>src</em> is moved inside that
directory. If the destination already exists but is not a directory, it may
be overwritten depending on <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.rename" title="os.rename"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.rename()</span></code></a> semantics.</p>
<p>If the destination is on the current filesystem, then <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.rename" title="os.rename"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.rename()</span></code></a> is
used. Otherwise, <em>src</em> is copied to <em>dst</em> using <em>copy_function</em> and then
removed.  In case of symlinks, a new symlink pointing to the target of <em>src</em>
will be created in or as <em>dst</em> and <em>src</em> will be removed.</p>
<p>If <em>copy_function</em> is given, it must be a callable that takes two arguments
<em>src</em> and <em>dst</em>, and will be used to copy <em>src</em> to <em>dst</em> if
<a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.rename" title="os.rename"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.rename()</span></code></a> cannot be used.  If the source is a directory,
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copytree" title="shutil.copytree"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copytree()</span></code></a> is called, passing it the <code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy_function()</span></code>. The
default <em>copy_function</em> is <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy2()</span></code></a>.  Using <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy" title="shutil.copy"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy()</span></code></a> as the
<em>copy_function</em> allows the move to succeed when it is not possible to also
copy the metadata, at the expense of not copying any of the metadata.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.move</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">src</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Added explicit symlink handling for foreign filesystems, thus adapting
it to the behavior of GNU’s <strong class="program">mv</strong>.
Now returns <em>dst</em>.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.5: </span>Added the <em>copy_function</em> keyword argument.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>Platform-specific fast-copy syscalls may be used internally in order to
copy the file more efficiently. See
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil-platform-dependent-efficient-copy-operations"><span class="std std-ref">Platform-dependent efficient copy operations</span></a> section.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.disk_usage">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">disk_usage</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">path</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.disk_usage" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return disk usage statistics about the given path as a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named tuple</span></a>
with the attributes <em>total</em>, <em>used</em> and <em>free</em>, which are the amount of
total, used and free space, in bytes. <em>path</em> may be a file or a
directory.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.3.</span></p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>On Windows, <em>path</em> can now be a file or directory.</p>
</div>
<p class="availability"><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix, Windows.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.chown">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">chown</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">path</em>, <em class="sig-param">user=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">group=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.chown" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Change owner <em>user</em> and/or <em>group</em> of the given <em>path</em>.</p>
<p><em>user</em> can be a system user name or a uid; the same applies to <em>group</em>. At
least one argument is required.</p>
<p>See also <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.chown" title="os.chown"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.chown()</span></code></a>, the underlying function.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.chown</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">path</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">user</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">group</span></code>.</p>
<p class="availability"><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.3.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.which">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">which</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">cmd</em>, <em class="sig-param">mode=os.F_OK | os.X_OK</em>, <em class="sig-param">path=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.which" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the path to an executable which would be run if the given <em>cmd</em> was
called.  If no <em>cmd</em> would be called, return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p>
<p><em>mode</em> is a permission mask passed to <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.access" title="os.access"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.access()</span></code></a>, by default
determining if the file exists and executable.</p>
<p>When no <em>path</em> is specified, the results of <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.environ" title="os.environ"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.environ()</span></code></a> are used,
returning either the “PATH” value or a fallback of <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.defpath" title="os.defpath"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.defpath</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>On Windows, the current directory is always prepended to the <em>path</em> whether
or not you use the default or provide your own, which is the behavior the
command shell uses when finding executables.  Additionally, when finding the
<em>cmd</em> in the <em>path</em>, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PATHEXT</span></code> environment variable is checked.  For
example, if you call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.which(&quot;python&quot;)</span></code>, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.which" title="shutil.which"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">which()</span></code></a> will search
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PATHEXT</span></code> to know that it should look for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">python.exe</span></code> within the <em>path</em>
directories.  For example, on Windows:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">shutil</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">which</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;python&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;C:\\Python33\\python.EXE&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.3.</span></p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>The <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> type is now accepted.  If <em>cmd</em> type is
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a>, the result type is also <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a>.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="exception">
<dt id="shutil.Error">
<em class="property">exception </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">Error</code><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.Error" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This exception collects exceptions that are raised during a multi-file
operation. For <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copytree" title="shutil.copytree"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copytree()</span></code></a>, the exception argument is a list of 3-tuples
(<em>srcname</em>, <em>dstname</em>, <em>exception</em>).</p>
</dd></dl>

<div class="section" id="platform-dependent-efficient-copy-operations">
<span id="shutil-platform-dependent-efficient-copy-operations"></span><h3>Platform-dependent efficient copy operations<a class="headerlink" href="#platform-dependent-efficient-copy-operations" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Starting from Python 3.8, all functions involving a file copy
(<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copyfile" title="shutil.copyfile"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copyfile()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy" title="shutil.copy"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copy2" title="shutil.copy2"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copy2()</span></code></a>,
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copytree" title="shutil.copytree"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copytree()</span></code></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.move" title="shutil.move"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">move()</span></code></a>) may use
platform-specific “fast-copy” syscalls in order to copy the file more
efficiently (see <a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.python.org/issue33671">bpo-33671</a>).
“fast-copy” means that the copying operation occurs within the kernel, avoiding
the use of userspace buffers in Python as in “<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">outfd.write(infd.read())</span></code>”.</p>
<p>On macOS <a class="reference external" href="http://www.manpagez.com/man/3/copyfile/">fcopyfile</a> is used to copy the file content (not metadata).</p>
<p>On Linux <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.sendfile" title="os.sendfile"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.sendfile()</span></code></a> is used.</p>
<p>On Windows <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copyfile" title="shutil.copyfile"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copyfile()</span></code></a> uses a bigger default buffer size (1 MiB
instead of 64 KiB) and a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#memoryview" title="memoryview"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">memoryview()</span></code></a>-based variant of
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copyfileobj" title="shutil.copyfileobj"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.copyfileobj()</span></code></a> is used.</p>
<p>If the fast-copy operation fails and no data was written in the destination
file then shutil will silently fallback on using less efficient
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copyfileobj" title="shutil.copyfileobj"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copyfileobj()</span></code></a> function internally.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8.</span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="copytree-example">
<span id="shutil-copytree-example"></span><h3>copytree example<a class="headerlink" href="#copytree-example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This example is the implementation of the <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.copytree" title="shutil.copytree"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">copytree()</span></code></a> function, described
above, with the docstring omitted.  It demonstrates many of the other functions
provided by this module.</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">copytree</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">src</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">symlinks</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">False</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">names</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">listdir</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">src</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">makedirs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">errors</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
    <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">name</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">names</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">srcname</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">src</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">name</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">dstname</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">name</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">symlinks</span> <span class="ow">and</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">islink</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">srcname</span><span class="p">):</span>
                <span class="n">linkto</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">readlink</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">srcname</span><span class="p">)</span>
                <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">symlink</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">linkto</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dstname</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="k">elif</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isdir</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">srcname</span><span class="p">):</span>
                <span class="n">copytree</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">srcname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dstname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">symlinks</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="n">copy2</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">srcname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dstname</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="c1"># XXX What about devices, sockets etc.?</span>
        <span class="k">except</span> <span class="ne">OSError</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">why</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">errors</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">srcname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dstname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">why</span><span class="p">)))</span>
        <span class="c1"># catch the Error from the recursive copytree so that we can</span>
        <span class="c1"># continue with other files</span>
        <span class="k">except</span> <span class="n">Error</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">err</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">errors</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">extend</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">err</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>
    <span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">copystat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">src</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">except</span> <span class="ne">OSError</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">why</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="c1"># can&#39;t copy file access times on Windows</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">why</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">winerror</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">errors</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">extend</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">src</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">why</span><span class="p">)))</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">errors</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">raise</span> <span class="n">Error</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">errors</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Another example that uses the <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.ignore_patterns" title="shutil.ignore_patterns"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ignore_patterns()</span></code></a> helper:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">shutil</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">copytree</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ignore_patterns</span>

<span class="n">copytree</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">source</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">destination</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ignore</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">ignore_patterns</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;*.pyc&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;tmp*&#39;</span><span class="p">))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This will copy everything except <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.pyc</span></code> files and files or directories whose
name starts with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tmp</span></code>.</p>
<p>Another example that uses the <em>ignore</em> argument to add a logging call:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">shutil</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">copytree</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">_logpath</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">names</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;Working in </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s1">&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">path</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">[]</span>   <span class="c1"># nothing will be ignored</span>

<span class="n">copytree</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">source</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">destination</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ignore</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">_logpath</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="rmtree-example">
<span id="shutil-rmtree-example"></span><h3>rmtree example<a class="headerlink" href="#rmtree-example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This example shows how to remove a directory tree on Windows where some
of the files have their read-only bit set. It uses the onerror callback
to clear the readonly bit and reattempt the remove. Any subsequent failure
will propagate.</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="nn">stat</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">shutil</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">remove_readonly</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">func</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">path</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">_</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="s2">&quot;Clear the readonly bit and reattempt the removal&quot;</span>
    <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">chmod</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">stat</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">S_IWRITE</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">func</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">shutil</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rmtree</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">directory</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">onerror</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">remove_readonly</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="archiving-operations">
<span id="id1"></span><h2>Archiving operations<a class="headerlink" href="#archiving-operations" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.2.</span></p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.5: </span>Added support for the <em>xztar</em> format.</p>
</div>
<p>High-level utilities to create and read compressed and archived files are also
provided.  They rely on the <a class="reference internal" href="zipfile.html#module-zipfile" title="zipfile: Read and write ZIP-format archive files."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">zipfile</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="tarfile.html#module-tarfile" title="tarfile: Read and write tar-format archive files."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tarfile</span></code></a> modules.</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.make_archive">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">make_archive</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">base_name</em>, <em class="sig-param">format</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">root_dir</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">base_dir</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">verbose</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">dry_run</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">owner</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">group</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">logger</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.make_archive" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Create an archive file (such as zip or tar) and return its name.</p>
<p><em>base_name</em> is the name of the file to create, including the path, minus
any format-specific extension. <em>format</em> is the archive format: one of
“zip” (if the <a class="reference internal" href="zlib.html#module-zlib" title="zlib: Low-level interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with gzip."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">zlib</span></code></a> module is available), “tar”, “gztar” (if the
<a class="reference internal" href="zlib.html#module-zlib" title="zlib: Low-level interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with gzip."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">zlib</span></code></a> module is available), “bztar” (if the <a class="reference internal" href="bz2.html#module-bz2" title="bz2: Interfaces for bzip2 compression and decompression."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bz2</span></code></a> module is
available), or “xztar” (if the <a class="reference internal" href="lzma.html#module-lzma" title="lzma: A Python wrapper for the liblzma compression library."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">lzma</span></code></a> module is available).</p>
<p><em>root_dir</em> is a directory that will be the root directory of the
archive, all paths in the archive will be relative to it; for example,
we typically chdir into <em>root_dir</em> before creating the archive.</p>
<p><em>base_dir</em> is the directory where we start archiving from;
i.e. <em>base_dir</em> will be the common prefix of all files and
directories in the archive.  <em>base_dir</em> must be given relative
to <em>root_dir</em>.  See <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil-archiving-example-with-basedir"><span class="std std-ref">Archiving example with base_dir</span></a> for how to
use <em>base_dir</em> and <em>root_dir</em> together.</p>
<p><em>root_dir</em> and <em>base_dir</em> both default to the current directory.</p>
<p>If <em>dry_run</em> is true, no archive is created, but the operations that would be
executed are logged to <em>logger</em>.</p>
<p><em>owner</em> and <em>group</em> are used when creating a tar archive. By default,
uses the current owner and group.</p>
<p><em>logger</em> must be an object compatible with <span class="target" id="index-2"></span><a class="pep reference external" href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0282"><strong>PEP 282</strong></a>, usually an instance of
<a class="reference internal" href="logging.html#logging.Logger" title="logging.Logger"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">logging.Logger</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>The <em>verbose</em> argument is unused and deprecated.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.make_archive</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">base_name</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">format</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">root_dir</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">base_dir</span></code>.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This function is not thread-safe.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>The modern pax (POSIX.1-2001) format is now used instead of
the legacy GNU format for archives created with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">format=&quot;tar&quot;</span></code>.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.get_archive_formats">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">get_archive_formats</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.get_archive_formats" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a list of supported formats for archiving.
Each element of the returned sequence is a tuple <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(name,</span> <span class="pre">description)</span></code>.</p>
<p>By default <a class="reference internal" href="#module-shutil" title="shutil: High-level file operations, including copying."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil</span></code></a> provides these formats:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><em>zip</em>: ZIP file (if the <a class="reference internal" href="zlib.html#module-zlib" title="zlib: Low-level interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with gzip."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">zlib</span></code></a> module is available).</p></li>
<li><p><em>tar</em>: Uncompressed tar file. Uses POSIX.1-2001 pax format for new archives.</p></li>
<li><p><em>gztar</em>: gzip’ed tar-file (if the <a class="reference internal" href="zlib.html#module-zlib" title="zlib: Low-level interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with gzip."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">zlib</span></code></a> module is available).</p></li>
<li><p><em>bztar</em>: bzip2’ed tar-file (if the <a class="reference internal" href="bz2.html#module-bz2" title="bz2: Interfaces for bzip2 compression and decompression."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bz2</span></code></a> module is available).</p></li>
<li><p><em>xztar</em>: xz’ed tar-file (if the <a class="reference internal" href="lzma.html#module-lzma" title="lzma: A Python wrapper for the liblzma compression library."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">lzma</span></code></a> module is available).</p></li>
</ul>
<p>You can register new formats or provide your own archiver for any existing
formats, by using <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.register_archive_format" title="shutil.register_archive_format"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">register_archive_format()</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.register_archive_format">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">register_archive_format</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">name</em>, <em class="sig-param">function</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">extra_args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">description</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.register_archive_format" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Register an archiver for the format <em>name</em>.</p>
<p><em>function</em> is the callable that will be used to unpack archives. The callable
will receive the <em>base_name</em> of the file to create, followed by the
<em>base_dir</em> (which defaults to <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.curdir" title="os.curdir"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.curdir</span></code></a>) to start archiving from.
Further arguments are passed as keyword arguments: <em>owner</em>, <em>group</em>,
<em>dry_run</em> and <em>logger</em> (as passed in <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.make_archive" title="shutil.make_archive"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make_archive()</span></code></a>).</p>
<p>If given, <em>extra_args</em> is a sequence of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(name,</span> <span class="pre">value)</span></code> pairs that will be
used as extra keywords arguments when the archiver callable is used.</p>
<p><em>description</em> is used by <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.get_archive_formats" title="shutil.get_archive_formats"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_archive_formats()</span></code></a> which returns the
list of archivers.  Defaults to an empty string.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.unregister_archive_format">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">unregister_archive_format</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">name</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.unregister_archive_format" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Remove the archive format <em>name</em> from the list of supported formats.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.unpack_archive">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">unpack_archive</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">filename</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">extract_dir</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">format</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.unpack_archive" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Unpack an archive. <em>filename</em> is the full path of the archive.</p>
<p><em>extract_dir</em> is the name of the target directory where the archive is
unpacked. If not provided, the current working directory is used.</p>
<p><em>format</em> is the archive format: one of “zip”, “tar”, “gztar”, “bztar”, or
“xztar”.  Or any other format registered with
<a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.register_unpack_format" title="shutil.register_unpack_format"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">register_unpack_format()</span></code></a>.  If not provided, <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.unpack_archive" title="shutil.unpack_archive"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unpack_archive()</span></code></a>
will use the archive file name extension and see if an unpacker was
registered for that extension.  In case none is found,
a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised.</p>
<p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil.unpack_archive</span></code> with arguments <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">filename</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">extract_dir</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">format</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>Accepts a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-path-like-object"><span class="xref std std-term">path-like object</span></a> for <em>filename</em> and <em>extract_dir</em>.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.register_unpack_format">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">register_unpack_format</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">name</em>, <em class="sig-param">extensions</em>, <em class="sig-param">function</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">extra_args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param">description</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.register_unpack_format" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Registers an unpack format. <em>name</em> is the name of the format and
<em>extensions</em> is a list of extensions corresponding to the format, like
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.zip</span></code> for Zip files.</p>
<p><em>function</em> is the callable that will be used to unpack archives. The
callable will receive the path of the archive, followed by the directory
the archive must be extracted to.</p>
<p>When provided, <em>extra_args</em> is a sequence of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(name,</span> <span class="pre">value)</span></code> tuples that
will be passed as keywords arguments to the callable.</p>
<p><em>description</em> can be provided to describe the format, and will be returned
by the <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.get_unpack_formats" title="shutil.get_unpack_formats"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_unpack_formats()</span></code></a> function.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.unregister_unpack_format">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">unregister_unpack_format</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">name</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.unregister_unpack_format" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Unregister an unpack format. <em>name</em> is the name of the format.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.get_unpack_formats">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">get_unpack_formats</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.get_unpack_formats" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a list of all registered formats for unpacking.
Each element of the returned sequence is a tuple
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(name,</span> <span class="pre">extensions,</span> <span class="pre">description)</span></code>.</p>
<p>By default <a class="reference internal" href="#module-shutil" title="shutil: High-level file operations, including copying."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shutil</span></code></a> provides these formats:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><em>zip</em>: ZIP file (unpacking compressed files works only if the corresponding
module is available).</p></li>
<li><p><em>tar</em>: uncompressed tar file.</p></li>
<li><p><em>gztar</em>: gzip’ed tar-file (if the <a class="reference internal" href="zlib.html#module-zlib" title="zlib: Low-level interface to compression and decompression routines compatible with gzip."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">zlib</span></code></a> module is available).</p></li>
<li><p><em>bztar</em>: bzip2’ed tar-file (if the <a class="reference internal" href="bz2.html#module-bz2" title="bz2: Interfaces for bzip2 compression and decompression."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bz2</span></code></a> module is available).</p></li>
<li><p><em>xztar</em>: xz’ed tar-file (if the <a class="reference internal" href="lzma.html#module-lzma" title="lzma: A Python wrapper for the liblzma compression library."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">lzma</span></code></a> module is available).</p></li>
</ul>
<p>You can register new formats or provide your own unpacker for any existing
formats, by using <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.register_unpack_format" title="shutil.register_unpack_format"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">register_unpack_format()</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<div class="section" id="archiving-example">
<span id="shutil-archiving-example"></span><h3>Archiving example<a class="headerlink" href="#archiving-example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>In this example, we create a gzip’ed tar-file archive containing all files
found in the <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.ssh</span></code> directory of the user:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">shutil</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">make_archive</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">archive_name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">expanduser</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;~&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;myarchive&#39;</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">root_dir</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">expanduser</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;~&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;.ssh&#39;</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">make_archive</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">archive_name</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;gztar&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">root_dir</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;/Users/tarek/myarchive.tar.gz&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The resulting archive contains:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell-session notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$</span> tar -tzvf /Users/tarek/myarchive.tar.gz
<span class="go">drwx------ tarek/staff       0 2010-02-01 16:23:40 ./</span>
<span class="go">-rw-r--r-- tarek/staff     609 2008-06-09 13:26:54 ./authorized_keys</span>
<span class="go">-rwxr-xr-x tarek/staff      65 2008-06-09 13:26:54 ./config</span>
<span class="go">-rwx------ tarek/staff     668 2008-06-09 13:26:54 ./id_dsa</span>
<span class="go">-rwxr-xr-x tarek/staff     609 2008-06-09 13:26:54 ./id_dsa.pub</span>
<span class="go">-rw------- tarek/staff    1675 2008-06-09 13:26:54 ./id_rsa</span>
<span class="go">-rw-r--r-- tarek/staff     397 2008-06-09 13:26:54 ./id_rsa.pub</span>
<span class="go">-rw-r--r-- tarek/staff   37192 2010-02-06 18:23:10 ./known_hosts</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="archiving-example-with-base-dir">
<span id="shutil-archiving-example-with-basedir"></span><h3>Archiving example with <em>base_dir</em><a class="headerlink" href="#archiving-example-with-base-dir" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>In this example, similar to the <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil-archiving-example">one above</a>,
we show how to use <a class="reference internal" href="#shutil.make_archive" title="shutil.make_archive"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make_archive()</span></code></a>, but this time with the usage of
<em>base_dir</em>.  We now have the following directory structure:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell-session notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$</span> tree tmp
<span class="go">tmp</span>
<span class="go">└── root</span>
<span class="go">    └── structure</span>
<span class="go">        ├── content</span>
<span class="go">            └── please_add.txt</span>
<span class="go">        └── do_not_add.txt</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>In the final archive, <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">please_add.txt</span></code> should be included, but
<code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">do_not_add.txt</span></code> should not.  Therefore we use the following:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">shutil</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">make_archive</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">archive_name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">expanduser</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;~&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;myarchive&#39;</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">make_archive</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">archive_name</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="s1">&#39;tar&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">root_dir</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;tmp/root&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">base_dir</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;structure/content&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;/Users/tarek/my_archive.tar&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Listing the files in the resulting archive gives us:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell-session notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$</span> python -m tarfile -l /Users/tarek/myarchive.tar
<span class="go">structure/content/</span>
<span class="go">structure/content/please_add.txt</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="querying-the-size-of-the-output-terminal">
<h2>Querying the size of the output terminal<a class="headerlink" href="#querying-the-size-of-the-output-terminal" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="shutil.get_terminal_size">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">shutil.</code><code class="sig-name descname">get_terminal_size</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">fallback=(columns</em>, <em class="sig-param">lines)</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#shutil.get_terminal_size" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Get the size of the terminal window.</p>
<p>For each of the two dimensions, the environment variable, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">COLUMNS</span></code>
and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LINES</span></code> respectively, is checked. If the variable is defined and
the value is a positive integer, it is used.</p>
<p>When <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">COLUMNS</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LINES</span></code> is not defined, which is the common case,
the terminal connected to <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#sys.__stdout__" title="sys.__stdout__"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.__stdout__</span></code></a> is queried
by invoking <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.get_terminal_size" title="os.get_terminal_size"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.get_terminal_size()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>If the terminal size cannot be successfully queried, either because
the system doesn’t support querying, or because we are not
connected to a terminal, the value given in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fallback</span></code> parameter
is used. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fallback</span></code> defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(80,</span> <span class="pre">24)</span></code> which is the default
size used by many terminal emulators.</p>
<p>The value returned is a named tuple of type <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.terminal_size" title="os.terminal_size"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.terminal_size</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>See also: The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2,
<a class="reference external" href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/envvar.html#tag_002_003">Other Environment Variables</a>.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.3.</span></p>
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